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Bone Collectors

A giant headshield (cephalic carapace) from Aegirocassis benmoulai, a 2 metre long, filter feeding radiodont from the Ordovician of Morocco (Fezouata Biota). #FossilFriday

Once again, Liwia, a Lower Cambrian nektaspid belonging to the family Liwiidae, was found in the Zawiszyn Formation, known only from borehole samples, which revealed these inaccessible beauties hidden kilometers underground. #Artiopoda #Nektaspida #Paleoart #Cambrian

An inside-out, legless, headless wonder: a new euarthropod from the Soom Shale (Ordovician), South Africa, with exceptionally preserved internal anatomy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… #PapersinPalaeontology Wiley Earth and Space Science

Just turned 22. You should send me pictures of cool rocks. Here's some cool rocks from Fezouata, Morocco: Undescribed horseshoe crab (oldest in fossil record) Undescribed marrellomorph ("Furca mauretanica") Platypeltoides carmenae (slightly large than my other one)

Echidnacaris!! ive been meaning to draw one for quite a while now given how especially weird it is even for radiodont standards (imo at least). i should really draw more radiodonts ngl #AusPalaeo

Torrent

In combination with this fantastic size chart by Prehistorica (Christian M.) I went to work and I think I'm quite happy with the result.

Finally have 4 of the life stages godbless

Discussion in #PapersinPalaeontology: comment onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… and reply onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sp… on Omnidens appendages and the origin of radiodont mouthparts

Pulmonoscorpius, a 70cm long scorpion from Carboniferous Scotland. A daytime predator, Pulmonoscorpius was equipped with large compound eyes on the sides of its head, and an enormous stinger. Here, it blends in with the forest, eating a lizard-like Westlothiana.

Muttaburrasaurus #paleoart #dinosaur #art #digitalart